Sara Ann Swenson spent four years conducting fieldwork in Ho Chi Minh City. Her resulting ethnography examines Buddhist charity not just as a transfer of resources from donors to recipients but as an intricate web of emotion, morality, politics, and spiritual aspiration.
https://t.co/f3rQEiPIGb
WATCH: He hides his face, keeps his name a secret — and has quietly fed thousands in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. But as Kurt Black reports, what he’s offering goes well beyond a hot meal. https://t.co/ZnuiYL6fuz
En los últimos cuarenta años la teoría decolonial quizás sea, junto a la teoría feminista, la corriente de pensamiento que más ha profundizado en la reformulación de las categorías fundamentales de las ciencias sociales y humanidades. https://t.co/iYxMyAQpbs
Umberto Eco's antilibrary – a wonderful perspective on why our unread books are of greater value to our lives than the ones we have read https://t.co/Y7BQF2SLkJ
"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."
Baldwin's advice on writing (which applies to all creative work): https://t.co/bdAD88YayJ
Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage
Our latest study explores how the decline of Global North hegemony has shifted the geopolitical landscape and opened new possibilities for emergent organisations of the Global South.
https://t.co/jU1VPDy8EL
Poetics of Fighting: Jeff Chang's new biography, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, explores the internal and external conflicts of the influential martial artist.
https://t.co/0e9DELOM8h
The great basketball coach and Nike executive George Raveling has passed away at the age of 88 years old.
Raveling was a security guard at the March on Washington in 1963 and asked MLK for his copy of the “I Have A Dream” speech.
He donated it to his alma mater, Villanova.
"In this world, value is no longer created through labour and exchange, but captured through ownership and control. Control of platforms. Control of algorithms. Control of desire and identity itself."
@yanisvaroufakis on techno-fuedalism
https://t.co/uA6YCq7Lgd
2/2 Not only did they run, they sponsored eye surgery's for ppl in India who couldn't afford them.
I just wanted to take a moment and publicly acknowledge an Elder ਬਜ਼ੁਰਗ who modeled how to learn and grow and serve no matter how old we get! #FaujaSinghJi
1/2 RIP Fauja Singh, who took up running marathons at the age of 89. He passed at age 114 yesterday. I was lucky to meet some members of his running team - all Sikh - all in their 80s and 90s. Incredibly humble, spiritual and disciplined team.